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> What is the A3 size in inches please? Man, inches are so 20th century. Maybe even 19th, or 18th. They (or at least the paper sizes specified in inches) suck, in any case. A3 is *about* 11x17: it's *exactly* 297 x 420mm (or 11.69 x 16.54 inches). The new Epson printers that print A3 are actually labelled "A3 nobi" in Japan -- which means they'll print a slightly-larger-than-A3 sheet, for full-bleed A3 prints. In Japan, Epson even sells "A3 nobi" paper -- available at just about any half-decent computer store. To continue my mini-rant, the beauty of the metric paper sizes (both A and B) is that the aspect ratio (1:square root of 2) stays the same *every time* you cut it in half, so you never have to worry about the *shape* of your sheet changing when you only want to change the *size*. Just imagine formatting something for a business card (that's about A6, I think) and scaling it to fit a tabloid page (aforementioned A3, or maybe B4 if you'd like) and it fitting *exactly* on the page -- no white (or black) bars or weird margins. Try *that* with letter, legal, or ledger paper sizes! BTW, all the paper sizes and weights you'd ever care to know can be found at http://www.tssphoto.com/sp/dg/weight.html, which is an address I believe I found here on this very mailing list -- thanks to whoever it was that first pointed it out! Greg - Please turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for instructions.
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